The Importance of Poetry

This is the last entry of the blog tour for my poetry collection,  Idle Pursuits , 28 February, 2017.  I’d like to discuss in this part about why poetry is important.

     Poetry has a long history, its roots going back to the oral tradition, even before literacy, such as with Beowulf, where poems were used to remember stories.  So, it has been the basis of literature.

But in our modern day novels have become more of the norm.  Yet during Keats or Lord Byron’s time poetry was quite popular.  Byron, for example, was like a rock star in his time.  In  Idle Pursuits  there are poems on Keats and Byron, On Rediscovering Keats and If Byron Were Alive Today.

But poetry, perhaps, has fallen out of fashion; but I think it’s important to keep it going, as it can portray emotions, situations and matters of the heart so well.  For example, love poetry can be so beautiful.  And it has been how literature originally started, so it is a strong part of our literary history.  I still love to read poetry as well as novels.  So, I hope it will always be around!

This is the end of the  Idle Pursuits  blog tour but it is  available for purchase, e-book and paperback,  on all major sites, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo and iBooks; or for more information and to read samples please visit my website at: http://www.lpkirkbride.com

I have very much enjoyed sharing my poems and thoughts on poetry with you.  Happy reading!–L.P. Kirkbride

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